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plexity of the problem in the
country where German Fascism
had destroyed literally millions
of dwellings, he pointed out that
the housing industry there is
being developed along modern,
scientific lines. One type of
house is being built in 18 plants;
thousands of these have been con-
structed in the city of Stalin-
grad alone. These houses are
not pre-fabricated but are con-
structed on the lot in three days
by twenty skilled and twenty
unskilled workers. —

“In America,” Dyson Garter
told this reporter in an inter-
view after the meeting, “many
radically new methods of house
construction have been developed
by construction engineers over
the last fifteen years, almost
none of which have been put
into practice. However, in the
Soviet Union, where no such par-
allel development had been go-
ing forward, we find several of
the most advanced construction
methods are being applied on a
mass production scale.”

Twelve types of mass produc-
tion homes are being built in
the Soviet factories for construc-
tion. Conferences are held be-
tween architects and engineers
with the people for whom the
homes are being built to devel-
op factory made homes especial-
ly. designed to suit the require-
ments of the widely diversified

climatic conditions of the coun- }
1450 million on them during the

try. Individual localities discuss
each type of home and thus
a dwelling suited to the needs
of the people who will occupy.
them is built.

“Homes are built by the unions,
the government, the local coun-

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ceils and the collective farms. The
average cost would be around
four thousand dollars, but,’ Dy-

son Carter went on, “the pay-
ments and interests rates on
easily obtainable loans only

amount to about seven dollars
per month.

“We must remember of
course,” he continued, “that this | ,.
is only possible because, under
the leadership of the Communist
party the Soviet people are the
government, the people create
government policy, so that the
giant task of socialist reconstruc-
tion proceeds speedily and in the
interest of the people.”

In sharp contradiction to peo-
ple who questioned the feasibil- a
ity of the LPP housing propos-
als, Dyson Carter took objections
generally put forward “by those
people who do not want a hous-

ing program,” and demolished |.
them one by one.
Money? “During three years

we spent 450 million on buildings,
700 million on factory construc-
tion at a time when war produc-
tion was at its peak.”

Lumber? “According to the of-

Morgan Critical Of -
Speech From Throne

Commenting on the opening session of the provincial

equired today. The most notice-

able shortcoming of last week’s
speech (customary method of in-
troducing legislative proposals_of
the government) was the lack
of even
promised action.

re-assurance of long

“With the pressure of postwar

adjustments bearing heavily on
Veterans and Labor, it had been

xpected this session would see

the introduction of a number of
measures basic to the ensuring
of full employment and the eli_
mination of industrial strife.

“labor’s lobby has made an

outstanding contribution to cor-
reeting this trend. The high de-
gree of unity, the fact that AFL
and CCL unions took action and
enjoyed the support of a united
veteran movement, includig rep-

ficial reports of Reconstruction
Minister Howe, we produced
enough lumber to build four hun-
dred thousand homes in 1944.
Over the five-year war period |}.
we produced around 25 billion
board feet of lumber, enough
to build 2,400,000. homes.
Electrie Fixtures? “We spent

War years—ten times more than
the present campaign ‘would re-
quire. The facts show that we
have the labor, the supplies, the
ingenuity, but we will only get

action from our government
when people complain loudly
enough,” Dyson Carter conclud-

ed. “Let your M.P.’s know what
you demand, sign the LPP hous-
ing petition and back the cam-
paign for 250,000 low rental
homes for the Canadian people.”
—C.A.S.

Modern Home
Shown In Film

Are you in a hurry for a
house over your head? “Build-
ing a house”, one of the films
to start on the National Film
Board Rural Circuits on
March 18, will show you how
to get one in 24 hours.

For it took just that time to
erect furnish, and move into a
prefabricated home in Van-
couver, the completion of
which, from the fittings to to
bringing in the family’s
groceries for the next day, is
demonstrated in the film. In
all 72 workers took part in the
erection, which started at 8
am. By noon roof trusses
Were being raised, and at
4 p.m. shingles were on and
stained ,wiring and plumbing
completed, and inside and out
side painting near completion.

The film graphically and
dramatically presents one
answer to the housing crisis
before which local and federal
authorities. continue to stall
impotently.

parliament, Nigel Morgan, Provincial leader of the Labor-
Progressive Party said the opening speech to B.C.’s Zist
parliament last week leaves no doubt that only the mobiliza-
tion of an aggressive united campaign by all progressive
forces can win for the people the vital legislation so urgently

resentatives of the Legion, Army
and Navy and the Canadian
Corps, not only made history on
this continent but had a profound
effect in lifting to new levels
labor’s demands.

“The LPP insists that the
Hart-Maitland coalition must
play a more progressive role in
the Dominion —-Provineial Con-
ferences. The absence of states-
manlike approach to issues af-
fecting Dominion - Provincial re-
lations, is to put it simply, play-
ine the Duplessis-Drew game of
obstruction under the guise of
defending provincial rights—ob-
struction of National social se-
curity legislation.

“In the Labor Lobby it is sig-
nificant that the Tories are the
spearhead of the opposition, vin-
dicating the position set forth by
the LPP on innumerable occa-
sions.

“The Tories don’t like the ‘pres- |"

sure’ of the labor lobby. The
Vancouver Province of February
26 editorializes on this dislike
and pats reaction on the back
for its opposition to ‘labor
pressure.’ i

“Nor were the Tories alone in
this. KE. E. Winch, CCE MLA,
made a vicious attack on the lob-
by, accusing it also of pressure
politics and inferring that the
leaders of the lobby were mis-
lead.

“This view was shared by
other CCF politicians who, un-
able to capture the lobby, fol-
lowed Winch’s lead in trying to
diseredit it.??

A British Spy?

Stockholm — Kenneth Ful-
lerton, described as a British
subject, today was sentenced
by a Stockholm magistrate’s
court to 24% years’ hard labor
on charges of espionage, theft
and illegal possession of arms.
The pleadings will be kept
Secret for 20 years.

Fullerton was arrested at
the end of January.

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